Large Cities 2016

Overall Rank: 4 Population:
1,629,950

San Francisco-Redwood City-South San Francisco, California, remains among the top expanding economies in the country, coming in at No. 4 on this year’s ranking. A high proportion of tech gains has been fueled by start-ups within the metro’s rich ecosystem of entrepreneurship. The service-based tech sector has led the advance in areas such as cloud-based software, mobile applications, social media, internet publishing, cloud-based storage, gaming and digital media.